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Good Black News: The Daily Drop

By: Lori Lakin Hutcherson
  • Summary

  • A daily drop of Good Black News offers quick, inspiring facts about people, events, culture, history, organizations or landmarks along with quotes, jokes, games and trivia from goodblacknews.org and the Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022 by Lori Lakin Hutcherson and Workman Publishing. Cover Design by Jeronimo Sochaczewski.
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  • GBN Daily Drop for May 30, 2022: Memorial Day and its African American Origins
    May 30 2022

    Memorial Day, an American national holiday dedicated to the memory of fallen US soldiers, is celebrated on the last Monday of May. Its beginnings however, started on the first day of May in 1865, when by a group of newly liberated Blacks in Charleston, South Carolina placed flowers on the unmarked graves of captured Union soldiers and held a parade to honor the dead.

    • To learn more about what was originally known as "Decoration Day", check out the links to sources below:

    • https://www.history.com/news/memorial-day-civil-war-slavery-charleston

    • https://www.lx.com/black-legacy/dont-overlook-memorial-days-black-southern-roots/53453/

    • https://www.live5news.com/2020/02/18/charleston-claims-first-memorial-day-celebration-with-african-americans-playing-significant-role/

    • https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2022/05/28/freed-slaves-started-first-memorial-day-in-the-us/

    • https://aaregistry.org/story/the-first-american-memorial-day-is-commemorated/

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    4 mins
  • GBN Daily Drop for May 12, 2022: Mary Eliza Mahoney, 1st African American Licensed Nurse in U.S.
    May 13 2022

    Born in 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney worked hard for nearly two decades to earn her nursing license, overcoming discrimination to become the first African American person to do so in the United States. To learn more about Boston-born and based Mahoney, read Mary Eliza Mahoney and the Legacy of African-American Nurses, watch a short bio on YouTube or check out the links to more sources below.

    Sources:

    https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mary-mahoney

    https://www.essence.com/black-history-month-2019/mary-eliza-mahoney-the-first-black-nurse/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/19/obituaries/mary-eliza-mahoney-overlooked.html

    https://nursing-theory.org/famous-nurses/Mary-Mahoney.php

    https://www.biography.com/activist/mary-mahoney

    http://ojin.nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/AboutANA/Honoring-Nurses/NationalAwardsProgram/HallofFame/19761982/mahome5552.html

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    3 mins
  • GBN Daily Drop for May 11, 2022: Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson (Black Inventors)
    May 12 2022

    The first African American woman to earn a doctorate at M.I.T., Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson is responsible for the major advances in telecommunications research that led to the invention of the touch-tone phone, portable fax, fiber optic cables, solar cells, call waiting and caller ID.

    To learn more about the current president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest technological research university in the U.S., check out the links to sources below:

    Strong Force: The Story of Physicist Shirley Ann Jackson

    https://president.rpi.edu/president-biography

    https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/shirley-ann-jackson/

    https://www.news10.com/news/local-news/dr-shirley-ann-jackson-a-lifetime-shattering-glass-ceilings-in-math-and-science-for-black-women/

    https://youtu.be/mKAgAdHaJw0 (National Medal of Science bio)

    https://youtu.be/0CYQAQ1EPSo (Storied Women of MIT)

    https://youtu.be/ATcTENr07U8 (An evening with Dr. Jackson NSTMF)

    https://youtu.be/xvGPPE-09OE (Brown University Department of Physics bio)

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    2 mins

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